At least six policemen were killed Monday, February 21 in the morning in a suicide car bomb aimed at a camp by government forces in Mogadishu, according to a police official in Somalia. "Many others were injured, review should probably be higher, "said the official, policeman, Abdierrahman Issa. "A suicide bomber detonated a car bomb in the camp Darwish," which are based in particular of the police, near the port of the capital, according to a security official of the transitional government (TFG), Mohamed Ali.
The explosion, high power, was heard in several districts of Mogadishu. There were gunshots just before the attack, according to a witness, who said that two car bombs have targeted the camp, usually at a time when military and police at the rally. The attack comes after two days of fighting in the capital between the strength of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), supported by elements of the TFG and the Islamists Shebab, with at least twenty dead.
The Amisom claimed to have won a "major success" in seizing a network of tunnels and trenches used by the Islamists. African peacekeeping force but also government officials are regularly targeted by suicide attacks of Shebab, who claim al-Qaida and constantly denounced the "Christian crusaders" and their allies "apostates".
According to a Western security source, the high command Shebab met on February 9 and 10 to Heliwa Danyil and, on the northern outskirts of Mogadishu, to decide on new tactics to complement the usual military activity on the front lines. Shebab hierarchy has decided to increase suicide attacks, targeted assassinations and grenade attacks, the recruitment of future suicide bombers infiltrating and fifty of his fighters, armed with grenades and guns in the government zone, according to the same source. 
The explosion, high power, was heard in several districts of Mogadishu. There were gunshots just before the attack, according to a witness, who said that two car bombs have targeted the camp, usually at a time when military and police at the rally. The attack comes after two days of fighting in the capital between the strength of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), supported by elements of the TFG and the Islamists Shebab, with at least twenty dead.
The Amisom claimed to have won a "major success" in seizing a network of tunnels and trenches used by the Islamists. African peacekeeping force but also government officials are regularly targeted by suicide attacks of Shebab, who claim al-Qaida and constantly denounced the "Christian crusaders" and their allies "apostates".
According to a Western security source, the high command Shebab met on February 9 and 10 to Heliwa Danyil and, on the northern outskirts of Mogadishu, to decide on new tactics to complement the usual military activity on the front lines. Shebab hierarchy has decided to increase suicide attacks, targeted assassinations and grenade attacks, the recruitment of future suicide bombers infiltrating and fifty of his fighters, armed with grenades and guns in the government zone, according to the same source.
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